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Re: Hosed /var permissions



On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 01:58:10AM -0400, Chris Newbold wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 01:46, CaT wrote:
> 
> > If this is the case then nuke the dir, install the package and restart
> > the data files from backup (taking care to chown it to the user
> > indicated... usually the dir owner).
> 
> If I had a backup, I wouldn't be here :-) Though I may try this approach
> for those directories which do not contain my data...

It was a part reference to an earlier email. Make a backup of your
current /var directory and then play to your hearts content. That way
you can't really make things any worse.

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   but a calf."
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